Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1962: Items from the Clovis police blotter:
• Mrs. Iva Rickard, who lived at 308 N. Sheldon, reported someone had thrown beer bottles in her front yard.
• A curtain and blind were destroyed and "wall paint was damaged" in a house fire at 813 Gidding. A cigarette was blamed for the damage.
• A man who lived at 801 Lea told police he was driving east on First Street when two subjects he did not know invited him to the country. When they arrived, the man said the subjects started fighting him. He told police he would not recognize them if he saw them again.
1962: Movies at local theaters included "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation," starring Jimmy Stewart and Maureen Ohara," "No Name on the Bullet," starring Audie Murphy and "Sergeants," starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
Admission ranged from 25 cents for children to "$1 a car" at the drive-ins.
Pages Past is compiled by Editor David Stevens. Contact him at: [email protected]
